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Climate struggles intensify as droughts double since 2005, Kenya Met Dept

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Alice Lotyeng'a helps her husband Amuriat Egiron walk in Kakwanyang village, Turkana County. [Mike Ekutan, Standard]

Kenya is now highly vulnerable to drought.

Climate change has made events like the extreme drought that the country has been experiencing since 2020 stronger and about 100 times more likely.

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